Re: An study in thread drift...

Joel Garry wrote:

> As with most such questions, Homer should wonder whether that of which
> he accuses others is really his own problem. Maybe Jerome actually
> wasn't playing games. Maybe Jerome was actually attempting to give
> the more correct answer that explains why (rather than a vague answer
> about "I do know Oracle's internal shenanigans" - <sarcasm>no ego
> displayed _there_</sarcasm>), followed by the conclusion. Maybe
> Jerome is just reactive, rather than showing off.

Maybe, but the evidence is that he is indeed merely playing games.

Because not only did Jerome not provide an explanation to the poor, inexperienced original poster of how to actually perform a hot backup using scripts -something he claims was so desperately needed in Homer's post- but Jerome's last paragraph actually came out in fulsome and entire agreement with Homer's original post.

As for your attempt at sarcasm... Only you, Joel, could see ego in a sentence which consisted of 20 words, of which you quote 6. And which was preceeded by a sentence which began with the words "I don't know...I could be wrong".

That isn't sarcasm. That's the same kind of sloppy "me-tooism" which has characterised your entire contribution to this thread.

Try reading Holger's contributions to the thread to see how it ought to be done.

Go compare the size of your cleverness with something else behind the bike sheds if you must. I'm outta here.
HJR Received on Wed Oct 20 2004 - 17:48:44 CDT